Sentences with phrase «serve as a last resort»

Both Stringer and de Blasio, however, stopped short of endorsing a total moratorium on closures, which they said should only serve as a last resort.

The hard work of this facility has served as the last resort of help for animals that deserve good homes, and our community must come together to ensure that they can continue connecting pets with loving homes for years to come,»

While it's not recommended as these coverages are important in the event of a collision, if you've run out of options, this serves as a last resort.

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Charney, now dean of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, thinks ketamine could serve as an alternative to electroconvulsive therapy, the current treatment of last resort.

DCPS says it's unfair that it has to serve as the educator of last resort for all city kids, while charters can choose not to backfill or take mid-year transfers.

Developing a school culture in which suspension is the last resort rather than the first is achievable, said Morales, using her own school — which serves a low - income, mostly Latino student population — as a prime example.

Is this the same alternative high school that served for years, in one administrator's words, as a «dumping ground» and «school of last resort» for students who weren't making the grade in traditional high schools?

It's popularly believed that (1) publishing houses serve as gatekeepers, maintaining publishing quality standards; (2) self - publishing has a lower barrier to entry, allowing people to publish junk; (3) authors self - publish as a last resort, when they fail to get past the publishing house gate - keepers, because their books aren't good enough; and (4) books published outside the publishing houses don't go through a team of book experts to be proofread, formatted, designed, etc., and so are terribly flawed by amateurish production values.

The Treasury agrees to serve as a buyer of last resort for the fund's securities to ensure the orderly liquidation of the fund.

Gold: • Helps protect against inflation • Often goes up when stocks and other things go down • Serves as a last - resort store of wealth and method of exchange

Killing of this sort can be classified as either euthanasia, undertaken as a last resort and solely to serve the interest of an irremediably suffering animal, or non-euthanasia, undertaken to serve a wider spectrum of interests.

We lawyers typically agree to serve as estate trustee only as a last resort, and even then, we do not get an immediate bonus if the client does name us.

That the use of a default PBC should be an option of last resort, and should serve as an interim measure to provide a point of contact for third parties pending the establishment or re-establishment, of a PBC nominated by the native title holders.

Indigenous women also serve comparatively shorter sentences, suggesting a general failure to employ the principle of imprisonment as a last resort.

Historically, those proprietary trading desks have served as buyers of last resort during periods of macro-market volatility.